I always feel I'm getting near to something that's got more to it than I can get hold of.

Whatever I think of, I dismember.

Drawing is an idea more than fact.

An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind.

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.

My life has no purpose no direction no aim no meaning and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Be a role model of happiness and joy, which will pull everyone - including yourself - upward.

It was never tough [ being the new guy]. It's just the warmest group of people [The Office stuff] you could ever hope to work with.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Ive always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.

What God does, He does well.

A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader.

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living